Here are the sets 2024 has to offer for Magic: The Gathering fans!
By Nick Miller
Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has revealed details for each major Magic: The Gathering set release coming next year. We’ve put together a comprehensive guide highlighting what we know about all the 2024 sets on the horizon. Dive into brand-new worlds or revisit cherished classics — the upcoming year promises a wealth of excitement. Plus, stay tuned for new launches from Universes Beyond and a third installment of Modern Horizons.
- Ravnica Remastered — January 12, 2024
- Murders at Karlov Manor — February 9, 2024
- Ravnica: Clue Edition — February 23, 2024
- Fallout — March 8
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction — April 19, 2024
- Modern Horizons 3 — June 14, 2024
- Assassin’s Creed — July 5, 2024
- Bloomburrow — August 2, 2024
- Duskmourn: House of Horror — September 27, 2024
- Foundations — November 15, 2024
Upcoming Sets
Foundations – November 15, 2024
Important Dates
- Distributor Selection and Prerelease Allocation Increase Request Deadline: August 30, 2024
- WPN Marketing Portal Update: September 12, 2024
- Promotional Kit Delivery: Beginning November 1, 2024
- Prerelease: November 8-14, 2024
- Worldwide Release: November 15, 2024
- MagicAcademy: Learn to Play: November 15, 2024-January 30, 2025
- Standard Showdown: November 15, 2024-January 30, 2025
- MagicAcademy: Deck Building: November 15, 2024-January 30, 2025
- FNM: November 15, 2024-January 24, 2025
Foundations offers a stable starting experience for new MTG players. The Foundations set will be Standard-legal, and for an extended period of time: while most MTG sets are in Standard for between two and three years, Foundations “will remain in Standard through at least 2029”.
- Foundations Set Code: FDN
- Foundations Jumpstart Set Code: J25
- Special Guests Set Code: SPG
Product Lineup
- Play Boosters
- Jumpstart Boosters
- Beginner Box
- 10 Themed Jumpstart packs
- These special packs contain only Foundations cards and are designed for beginner play.
- 2 Reference cards
- 1 Reference guide booklet
- 2 “How to Play” guides
- 2 Gameboard playmats
- 2 Spindown life counters
- 10 Themed Jumpstart packs
- Starter Collection
- 350+ Magic: The Gathering cards
- Of those, 22 are traditional foil cards.
- 3 Magic: The Gathering Foundations Play Boosters
- 95 Basic lands
- Of those, 10 are full-art basic lands.
- 14 Tokens
- 2 Reference cards
- 1 “How to Build Your Deck” booklet
- 1 Click wheel
- 350+ Magic: The Gathering cards
- Collector Boosters
- Bundle
- Prerelease Packs
A full breakdown of Foundations product contents can be found here.
Past 2024 Sets
Duskmourn: House Of Horror – September 27, 2024
Duskmourn: House of Horroris a top-down modern horror set, think 70s-80s horror movies, where the whole world takes place inside a giant mansion. This set will use horror differently than Innistrad sets or Phyrexian sets.
Important Dates
- Thirteen Days of Duskmourn: August 31-September 12, 2024
- Full Card Image Gallery: September 13, 2024
- Prerelease: September 20-27, 2024
- MTG Arena Release: September 24, 2024
- Global release: September 27, 2024
- Haunted Bundle: October 18, 2024
- Standard Showdown: September 27 – November 7
- Commander Party: October 4 – 10 & November 1 – 7
- Store Championship: October 12, 2024 – January 5, 2025
- Nightmare Bundle Release: October 18, 2024
- Trick or Treat Event: October 25 – October 31
Commander Decks
- Miracle Worker
- Death Toll
- Jump Scare
- Endless Punishment
Archenemy Returns
The Duskmourn Commander decks also mark the return of the Archenemy multiplayer format, last seen in 2017’s Archenemy: Nicol Bolas. In an Archenemy game, one player, the archenemy, must take on all others and defeat them to win. Aiding the archenemy are Scheme cards, which harm one or more opponents when set in motion.
Assassin’s Creed – July 5, 2024
The July 2024 Universes Beyond offering will be the first to have Beyond Boosters. These new boosters are non-draftable packs that take you on a journey unique to its universe. There will be new cards and reprints featuring favorite characters and moments from all of the Assassin’s Creed video games. The cards will be legal in Modern.
Important Dates
- Debut and Previews Begin on WeeklyMTG: June 18
- Card Image Gallery and Previews Complete: June 21
- Global Tabletop Launch: July 5
Assassin’s Creed will be available in Beyond Boosters and Collector Boosters.
Beyond Boosters are seven-card packs that include:
- 1 Basic land card (or non-foil borderless scene card)
- 3 Uncommon cards
- 1 Rare or mythic rare card
- 1 Traditional foil uncommon, rare, or mythic rare card
- 1 Showcase uncommon, rare, or mythic rare card (can also be traditional foil)
Booster Fun treatments range from borderless scene cards, traditional borderless cards, Memory Corridor cards, extended-art cards, many different foiling options, and serialized versions of several historical figures, each appearing in the language that figure spoke.
Bloomburrow – August 2, 2024
Bloomburrowis another new plane, showing off a world of anthropomorphic animals with no humans. The animals are the main characters and are in scope, so animals are actual size, wear clothes, and have weapons. The setstarts the second year of the new story arc and it is called the “Dragonstorm Arc.”
Important Dates
- MagicStory: July 2
- Debut and Previews Begin: July 9
- Card Image Gallery and Previews Complete: July 19
- Prerelease at Your Local Game Store: July 26 – August 1
- MTG ArenaRelease: July 30
- Global Tabletop Release: August 2
- Standard Showdown: August 2 – September 19
- Commander Party: August 16 – 22 & September 6 – 12
- Store Championship: August 24 – September 1
- WPN Game Store Open House: September 13 – 15
- BloomburrowSet Code: BLB
- BloomburrowCommander Set Code: BLC
- Special GuestsSet Code: SPG
Bloomburrow will be a kindred-focused set, revolving around a number of animal-folk creature types.
Part of the Booster Fun for Bloomburrow will be full-art seasonal basic lands.
Spring | Summer
Autumn | Winter
The Showcase Woodland treatments offer storybook style frames, five of which with illustrations by guest artist David Petersen.
There will also be Borderless Field Notes and Borderless Anime treatments.
Bloomburrow will offer four Commander Decks in addition to the usual suite of products.
Modern Horizons 3 – June 14, 2024
Modern Horizons 3is bringing even more cards to the non-rotating format with a complex draft format. MH3 will have double-faced cards, something neither of the previous Modern Horizon sets included. It will also be added to MTG Arena in its entirety.
Important Dates
- Debut and Previews Begin on WeeklyMTG: May 21
- Card Image Galleryand Previews Complete: May 31
- Prerelease Events Begin at Your Local Game Store: June 7
- MTG ArenaGlobal Launch: June 11
- Global Tabletop Launch: June 14
- Open House Weekend: June 14
- Pro TourModern Horizons 3at MagicCon: Amsterdam: June 28–30
- Modern Horizons 3Set Code: MH3
- Modern Horizons 3Commander Set Code: M3C
- Special GuestsSet Code: SPG
The Eldrazi return to Magic in Modern Horizons 3 along with DFC creature/planeswalkers, and, of course, fetch lands.
The Eldrazi can be seen in the full-art Eldrazi basic lands.
Modern Horizons 3 will be available in Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, Prerelease packs, Bundles, a Gift Edition, and four Commander Decks with two versions of each.
Retro frame treatments are back on new cards and reprints.
And the fetch lands will also have multiple treatments (borderless, retro frame, and extended art).
Ravnica Remastered – January 12, 2024
Important Dates
- WPN Premium Deadline: October 27, 2023
- Distributor Lock Date: October 27, 2023
- Previews Begin: December 19, 2023
- Promotional Kit Delivery: Begins December 29, 2023
- WPN Premium Preview Event: January 5–11, 2024
- Set Release: January 12, 2024
- Launch Party: January 12–14, 2024
Ravnica Remasteredkicks off 2024 and combines cards from all three previous Ravnica blocks and puts them together for a fun draft environment. It will feature retro-frame versions of ionic cards, like the original Ravnica Shocklands.
Murders At Karlov Manor – February 9, 2024
Murders at Karlov Manoris a top-down murder mystery set taking place on Ravnica but is not a normal Ravnica set revolving around the guilds. It will also have a Universes Beyond offering in Ravnica: Clue Edition, a new form of multiplayer Magic that welcomes fans of Magic and Clue alike to unleash their inner sleuths and solve the mystery as Ravnica’s premier detectives.
Important Dates
- Remaining Story Episodes: January 8–18
- Debut and Previews Begin on WeeklyMTG: January 16
- Commander Deck Previews: January 24
- Card Image Galleryand Previews Complete: January 26
- MTG ArenaStreamer Event: February 1
- Prerelease at Your Local Game Store: February 2–8
- MTG ArenaRelease: February 6
- Global Tabletop Launch: February 9
- WPN Game Store Open House: February 9–11
- Friday NightMagic: February 9 – March 29
- Standard Showdown: February 9 – April 4
- Commander Night:February 16–18
- MagicCon: Chicago and Pro TourMurders at Karlov Manor: February 23–25
- Ravnica: Clue Edition(Ravnica: Cluedo Edition) Launch Party: February 23–25
- WPN Store Championship: March 2–10
Also making their debut during this set’s release, are Play boosters – Magic’s replacement for Draft and Set boosters. You can read about these packs in-depth in the article below.
MTG To Replace Set And Draft Boosters With New Play Booster
This products offers a full multiplayer experience right out of the box. Open packs, battle it out, and try to solve the murder with characters and weapons from the legendary board game. And each Ravnica: Clue Edition comes with a Clue-themed Box Topper shock land.
Fallout – March 8, 2024
The popular Universes Beyond products continue with the highly anticipated Magic: The Gathering – Fallout Commander Decks. These decks and cards are set in the post-nuclear alternate reality world of Fallout.
Important Dates
- First Looks: October 19, 2023
- Debut and Previews Begin: February 20, 2024
- Global Release: March 8, 2024
- Commander Launch Party: March 8–10, 2024
Outlaws Of Thunder Junction – April 19, 2024
Outlaws of Thunder Junctionis Magic’s first take on a western genre, using a fantasy frontier setting to showcase a new plane all about the villains from across the multiverse.
Important Dates
- Story Begins: March 11
- Debut and Previews Begin: March 26
- Card Image Gallery and Previews Complete: April 5
- Prerelease Events: April 12–18
- MTG Arena Global Release: April 16
- Global Tabletop Release: April 19
- Open House: April 19–21
- Standard Showdown: April 19 – July 25
- Commander Party: April 26 – May 2
- Store Championship: May 4–12
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Set Code: OTJ
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander Set Code: OTC
- Breaking News Set Code: OTP
- The Big Score Set Code: BIG
- Special Guests Set Code: SPG
The set will feature a Breaking News bonus sheet and it is full of crimes — which is a new mechanic in Outlaws of Thunder Junction. They will be in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Textured foil versions of them will exclusively be in Collector Boosters.
Normal Breaking News cards can be seen above while their textured foil versions are below.
Players can also open Wanted Poster treatments in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.
There will also be 30 mythic rares from The Big Score, which has its own unique set symbol. All of these cards will be Standard legal. Special Guests cards and the 30 mythic rares from The Big Score feature the vault frame.
Exclusive raised foil versions of the vault frame will be in Collector Boosters.
The set will also have full-art Western basic lands.
